Charles Dickens /

Charles Dickens / editor, Eugene Goodheart. - Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011. - ix, 290 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-277) and index. "Works by Charles Dickens": p. 271-272.

On Charles Dickens / Biography of Charles Dickens / The Paris Review perspective / Charles Dickens in his times/ Charles Dickens's critical reputation / Order in disorder: surrealism and Oliver Twist / Another version of pastoral: Oliver Twist / Mourning becomes David: loss and the Victorian restoration of young Copperfield / Eccentricity as Englishness in David Copperfield / Expectations well lost: dickens' fable for his time / The sense of self / Structure and idea in Bleak house / "True legitimacy": the myth of the foundling in Bleak house / Hard times and the structure of industrialism: the novel as factory / Little Dorrit / Charles Dickens, James Joyce, and the origins of modernism / Eugene Goodheart -- Ppatricia Marks -- Elizabeth Gumport for The Paris Review -- Shanyn Fiske -- Laurence W. Mazzeno -- Nancy M. West -- Joseph M. Duffy, Jr. -- Alan P. Barr -- Julie F. Saville -- G. Robert Stange -- Monroe Engel -- Robert A. Donovan -- Michele S. Ware -- Patricia E. Johnson -- Lionel Trilling -- Matthew J. Bolton.

9781587656910 (alk. paper) 1587656914 (alk. paper)

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Criticism and interpretation.

PR 4588 / .C3586 2011